Carlos A. Melgar-Perez
- Missing Since 05/23/2010
- Missing From Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Sex Male
- Race Hispanic
- Date of Birth 05/05/1985 (35)
- Age 25 years old
- Height and Weight 5'7, 150 pounds
- Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic male. Black hair, brown eyes. Melgar-Perez is originally from Guatemala.
Details of Disappearance
Melgar-Perez was last seen in Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 23, 2010. He left the South Bridge Apartment Complex on foot with a friend at 11:00 p.m. Melgar-Perez was drunk at the time and may have fallen from a third-floor balcony before he walked away from the scene. Later on, his shoe and cellular phone were found in the vicinity. He has never been heard from again.
It's uncharacteristic of Melgar-Perez to be out of touch with his loved ones, and due to the passage of time, police believe he's missing under suspicious circumstances. His case remains unsolved. - Carlos A. Melgar-Perez – The Charley Project
Family of missing Fort Wayne man just want to know: ‘Is he alive or dead?’
LOCAL NEWS
AUG 2, 2018
LISA M ESQUIVEL LONG
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Carlos Melgar-Perez's family joins hands during a news conference about his disappearance eight years ago. From left is his twin brother, Arnulfo Melgar; mother, Maria Juana Perez de Melgar; and brother Gustavo Melgar. (Photo by Lisa M. Esquivel Long of News-Sentinel.com)
Gustavo Melgar last saw his brother Carlos Melgar-Perez on May 23, 2010, after a game of football. The next morning, he and Carlos’ twin discovered their brother was missing. At 5 a.m. they went out in search of him.
“I didn’t know where to look,” Gustavo Melgar said through an interpreter. “We didn’t know a lot of people.”
No one in the tight-knit Guatemalan family of nine has heard from Carlos in the last eight years. Thursday they implored the public for news about what happened him. The men’s mother, Maria Juana Perez de Melgar, came from Guatemala to join her sons, Carlos’ identical twin brother, Arnulfo Melgar, 33, and Gustavo Melgar, 28, at the Fort Wayne Police Department.
“I just want to know what happened,” Gustavo Melgar said, “whether he’s alive or dead.”
His 55-year-old mother has diabetes, and Carlos “was always worried about me,” she said through an interpreter. “… He always cared about us. … God has told me he hasn’t abandoned us.”
So it’s strange that Melgar-Perez would not contact his family, said Deputy Chief Garry Hamilton. Police interviewed a friend who was last seen walking with him at 11 p.m. from the South Bridge Apartments in the 8100 block of Bridgeway Circle. During a search they found one of Melgar-Perez’s shoes and his cell phone, and his bank account wasn’t touched after a transaction that day, leading them to believe foul play may be involved, Hamilton said.
Police had reported that night to a report of someone who had fallen from a balcony and walked away. Police don’t know if that was Melgar-Perez and if rumors that he might have fallen or been pushed from the third-floor balcony have any merit. The case has gone cold.
“Sometimes we don’t know the people we hang around if they are good people,” Arnulfo said through the interpreter.
Gustavo Melgar showed a picture of Melgar-Perez dressed in an El Azteca shirt where he worked. Melgar-Perez was the first family member to come to the United States in 2005, Gustavo said. Arnulfo arrived in 2006, followed by Gustavo in 2007.
On the way to play football that last night that they were together, “He was talking about returning to Guatemala to spend time with his mother. I left and he stayed with my brother. When I returned home I saw his car so I assumed he was upstairs.”
However, in the morning Arnulfo said their brother wasn’t that and that he had a weird feeling and “felt something” about his absence. He never showed up for work.
“To me he was like a father,” Gustavo Melgar said. “He always gave me advice on how to be a good person.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the Fort Wayne Police Department detective bureau at 260-427-1201.
- Family of missing Fort Wayne man just want to know: ‘Is he alive or dead?’
